An analysis of students’ vocabulary mastery on content words in writing descriptive text at the first grade of SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung
Abstract
The aims of this research were to analyze the students’ vocabulary mastery in their descriptive text. This research is quantitative research. The population was first-grade students of SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung. The samples were 20 students of class X.12. The data was collected by using the test to analyze the content word test in writing descriptive text. The researcher used four types of content words such as noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. The result showed that noun is 456 and percentage 7.60%, verb with a total of 339 and percentage 5.65%, adjective with a total 248 and percentage 4.13%, and adverb with a total 183 and percentage 1.53%. Based on the four content words, it shows that the most used type is noun.
Keywords: vocabulary mastery, content words, descriptive text
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